Seriously, I'm in here like I was on mIRC in 1995. To talk shit and have a laugh.
People somehow (well, we know exactly how) have developed this concept that you get on "social media" to make a living, instead of WORKING.
Then when reality comes with the receipts, they blame others for their poor decision-making.
Grifters and entitled idiots.
My problem is with people who are completely oblivious to reality, human incentives and common sense who, on top of that, seem to feel entitled to other people's time, attention and money, just because.
All these people whining about how little "engagement" they get... fuck right off with your grift, please.
You want to make money by posting your opinions or free content? That's perfectly fine!
Just be realistic about the product, the competition and the market you chose engage, and your probabilities to make any difference.
And be humble, and admit that no one owes you jack squat, even leas if you're giving away for free.
And stop being a little bitch, just in general.
Fiat and central banking enable governments to do/have:
Infinitely long wars
Infinite scale wars
Militarization of police
Surveillance state
War on their own citizens
Covert taxation through inflation
Infinite public spending on "social programs" that are used to then justify further spending
Infinite budget deficits
Infinite unpayable public debt
We all know this, so why am I repeating it?
Because too many people here insist that all this is doomed to fail -- but it just isn't. That's a progressive idea, and progressivism is historically wrong.
There are extended periods in human history of extreme material and cultural regression. Ancient Greeks even forgot how to read and write during the Bronze Age Collapse.
Bitcoin can be integrated into the system to make it more resilient. Kind of a reform that helps sustain it. It's an easy to understand and to see proposition, and I think that's exactly what will happen.
You may not like the idea of cooptation and that the system is not going away, let alone collapse. I say put aside your feelings and focus on riding it.
Bitcoin does not replace the 0.01%, except for the most obtuse and useless of them. All it really does is enable us plebs to join in.
This is exactly the sort of politically motivated judicial activism that so many here want to expose Nostr to with their calls for "content moderation".
Do you want to be a platform? Then risk being sued for never doing enough until compliance with political commands is absolute and total. nostr:note1sx822g4e5j4amdsvyjwv63lj5sfpvln0pxtgfravwwered0y5qest5ef2a
The concept of a BRICS currency is one of the most stupid, ignorant and laughable pieces of trash that the Kremlin agitprop apparatus has spun out in years.
They know they can trust the retarded US right to spread it for free though.
Western useful idiots have always been their most powerful weapon.
Socialism only sounds good to bitter, jealous people with no ethics or morals.
BUT MUH ROADZZZZ
I scrolled through the thread hoping to find one, and of course I did xD nostr:note1s6fzlhquchspwaxwxq4hqgqpe675hza46qtpyvq8667f5r4clf3scykrn4
It's not really accurate either. And if you just check out your notifications after a while, it bunches them together and you can't see them individually. You see the profile pictures overlapping each other, but you can't click on them so you can't know who that person was really, only the first one.
Kind of broken and useless anyway, I just ignore it.
As if it was a cue-in, I just heard that the just approved EU BTC spot ETF includes "proof of ESG" in its rules.
I always say it, there is no conspiracy. If anything, the powers that be are completely open and don't even bother hiding at all. Everything is out there in plain sight. nostr:note12uktfc2pjephqr4zpe9l795q7kphzkd2zptn39wypv0atqglntqq9kvesc
I don't have access to USD accounts. I'm not a US resident and I don't have a US SS number. Wise does all that for me.
On the other hand, you can't get around the fact that all those unbanked people will need electronic fiat, on way or another, to be able to enter the BTC economy in the first place.
Unless you're limiting their access to those who receive BTC from overseas, which will be a small amount of them always. BTC is what you turn your bad fiat into to remain solvent and safe against the State through time.
But you gotta be able to convert it in the first place.
The only real non-KYC option is face to face cash purchases. All the rest go through KYC ramps, even Amazon vouchers.
How many people really use F2F?
I personally Whirpool every single sat I buy on Bisq. Bot accident, if asked. But the transfer of money is there, in the bank records.
I just don't believe the "circular economy" will take over, simply put, because fiat isn't going away, ever. The USD may go away. The EUR, JPY, CNY may go away. But fiat itself? Not a chance.
Don't get me wong, I wish it did. Because it would mean that the State goes away. But I don't think it's ever happening.
At most, we will see BTC added as a hard asset to the basket of assets that will back fiats. That is, once again, reserve/store of value.
So, KPG has just released a whatever singing the environmental praises of BTC. Yes, they're actually saying that BTC is ESG-positive and HELPS with the "green transition".
If that's not a sign that these MFs are preparing a massive takeover and cooptation very soon (not KPG, but their real masters, like Blackrock), I don't know what other signs you people need.
Life hack: Gulf oysters are the ones that come with a finger thick layer of mud and smell like a wet dog.
Fuckin Whirpool zero mixes in a whole week already.